BenQ announces the DesignVue PD3220U-- a professional-grade monitor aimed at designers offering support for virtually all colour gamuts together with a DualView mode able to display images in two different colour spaces.

The monitor features a 31.5-inch 10-bit 3840 x 2160 resolution IPS panel with 300 nits typical brightness, 1000:1 static contrast, 5ms response time, 60Hz refresh rate, 178-degree viewing angles and anti-glare coating. BenQ says it can reproduce 1.07 billion colours, covering the sRGB, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3 and Display P3 colour spaces. It also supports HDR10, whilie a built-in KVM switch allows use with more than one computer with one or two displays.

Professionals get a number of specially-tuned modes, namely Animation (enhances dark areas without overexposing bright areas), Darkroom (for darkened post-processing environments) and CAD/CAM (enhances contrast). On the connectivity side the PD3220U has x2 Thunderbolt 3 connectors for daisychaining (with one port supporting 85W power delivery), x3 USB 3.1 ports and x1 USB-C port. Also included are a pair of 2W speakers and a headphone jack.

The PD3220U ships from April 2019.

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